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Personal info

Full name
CAMERON, Gerard Guyot
Date of birth
26 February 1909
Age
36
Place of birth
Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey
Hometown
Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
O-285316
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Counter Intelligence Agent
Unit
218th Counter Intelligence Detachment
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 March 1945
Place of death
Wesel, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 19 15

Immediate family

Members
Arnold G. Cameron (father)
Anne W. (Finley) Cameron (mother)
Arnold G. Cameron Jr. (brother)
Nicholas G. Cameron (brother)
David P. G. Cameron (brother)
Constance G. Cameron (sister)
Yvonne G. Cameron (sister)

More information

Lt. Gerard G. Cameron graduated from Yale University and had attended the graduate school of Business at New York University. He was working as an assistant comptroller at J. H. Williams & Company, Buffalo, NY until the joined the New York National Guard.

Lt. Cameron was commissioned Second Lieutenant in September 1942, promoted First Lieutenant in January 1944 and sent to Camp Ritchie for training in the Counter Intelligence Corps in 1944. He was sent overseas on 20 January 1945.

He was initially assigned to the 17th CIC Detachment (Airborne) which was attached to the 17th Airborne Division.

On 14 February 1945, he was reassigned to the 218th CIC Detachment (Airborne) attached to the XVIII Airborne Corps. On 18 March 1945, he was transferred on temporary duty to the 17th CIC Detachment (Airborne) attached to the 17th Airborne Division to participate in Operation Varsity as a volunteer.

On 24 March 1945, his glider was hit by enemy flak, landed, caught fire and came under intense hostile fire killing him and all occupants of the glider on Landing Zone "N".

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, 17th Airborne Division Historical Report of Operation Varsity, 218th CIC Detachment (Airborne) Morning Reports, Book: The Last Drop, Operation Varsity, March 24-25, 1945 by Stephen L. Wright, AFD-090602-016 Airborne Operations in World War II, European Theater, Yale University Obituary Record-Deceased Alumni 1944-1945, pages 157-158

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks, Yale University